The Son: No Prisoners (AMC 29 Apr 2017, with Carlos Bardem)

April 29, 2017

In the fifth episode, “No Prisoners,” an enemy forces Young Eli to question his loyalties in 1849. In 1915, the McCulloughs’ past comes back to haunt them with deadly results.

The series is based on Philipp Meyer’s New York Times best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel of the same name, and stars Pierce Brosnan. Consisting of ten one-hour episodes, “The Son” traces the transformation of Eli McCullough (Brosnan) from good-natured innocent to calculating killer. He loses everything on the wild frontier, setting him on the path to building a ranching-and-oil dynasty of unsurpassed wealth and privilege. The series deftly explores how Eli’s ruthlessness and quest for power triggers consequences that span generations, as the McCullough’s rise to become one the most powerful family dynasties in Texas.